Dotdotdot together with OpenDot Fab Lab designs new healthcare solutions based on human-centered approach and co-design to improve the lives of people with disabilities by generating inclusive social innovation.
Nowadays, designers have new technologies and methodologies at their disposal that could definitely innovating care and health, bettering the quality of life of millions living with disabilities.
Co-design and human centered approach allow us to take care of each other, as people, facilitating processes that involve designers, makers, therapists, doctors, and people with disabilities and their caregivers.
The Milan-based Interaction Design studio Dotdotdot and its Fab Lab OpenDot developed two solutions based on eye-tracking technology to promote the communication, interaction and cognitive empowerment of children with disabilities.
During the talk we will present the developing process of two projects. Amelie – Eye Tracking Suite, the world’s first open source eye-tracking suite for girls with Rett syndrome co-designed with AIRETT, its families and therapists, developers and designers. And TOP! Together To Play the Applied Videogames suite co-designed with TOG Foundation based on eye-tracking system, that promotes the rehabilitation of children with complex neurological problems and allows the collection of data for a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the rehabilitation process.
